Step into a workshop at Stellar Tech Girls and you might see model rockets being shot into the air or smell the spark of electrical circuits being constructed. Whatever the activity, you’re likely to sense an underlying theme of bold experimentation—and not worrying if the result doesn’t pan out. Which, says Marina Bloomer (MBA ’22), is exactly the point.
“Everything I do encourages girls to not be afraid,” she says. “I want them to try things early, to build prototypes, to not be afraid of failure, to keep testing and iterating because that’s what engineering is.”
As the founder and program director of the Middleton, Wisconsin-based Stellar Tech Girls, Bloomer is on a mission to get more girls and nonbinary children interested in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Through workshops and camps filled with hands-on experiments—and camaraderie—Bloomer is taking a unique approach to leveling the STEM playing field.
Read more here: https://business.wisc.edu/update-magazine/marina-bloomer-shapes-the-next-generation-of-powerful-women-in-stem/